Computer DVD Player (Not sure where to ask this one)?

[fatboy95]

I have a Creative PC-DVD player for my computer and it came with the Creative Dxr3 Decoder Board. I installed it in my system and it messed up my VIVO module. I could not get anything to work on it correctly and I tried just about everything under the sun to get it to work.

My question is can I use the DVD player in my computer without using the Dxr3 decoder card with it?


Thanks

fatboy!

[devinemi83]

Well, the answer is maybe. You could possibly go out and buy a software player like PowerDVD. This will put alot of work on your CPU though.

[heatseeker]

Yes thats your best bet just use a software DVD decoder. Unless you have a slow CPU like 300Mhz or less. My buddy has a P4 2GIG with a Geforce 4 128MB DDR and a DVD decoder card well it worked fine but he needed to free a PCI slot soooo he took the decoder card out and went with Power DVD and to tell you the truth it worked the same....

[devinemi83]

Faster the better, my 500Mhz celeron stutters at mpeg 2 video in DVD quality. Only do it if your cpu is like 800Mhz or higher, I would recommend 1GHz or higher.